Synonyms of rackets

rackets 1 of 2

noun

plural of racket

as in noises

loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound

if all the racket on the stairs is any indication, someone must be moving into apartment 3B

Synonyms & Similar Words

• noises
• rattles
• roars
• chatters
• commotions
• cacophonies
• brawls
• decibels
• discordances
• dins
• clatters
• bowwows
• bruits
• bluster
• blares
• clamors
• discords
• bangs
• clangors
• babels
• dissonances
• booms
• katzenjammers
• tumults
• furors
• jangles
• rumpuses
• hurly-burlies
• hullabaloos
• blasts
• uproars
• crashes
• claps
• hubbubs
• cracks

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• silences
• stills
• quiets
• lulls
• hushes
• calms
• serenities
• tranquilities
• quietudes

rackets

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of racket

as in chinks

Related Words

• chinks
• clanks
• clinks
• clacks
• clicks
• chirps
• clashes
• rattles
• clatters
• clangs
• clops
• crashes
• clip-clops
• spatters
• clop-clops
• sputters

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rackets

Noun

Those trunks held an eclectic assortment of products including tennis rackets, fishing rods, golf bags and men’s ties, dress shirts and suits. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026

Sure, there were rackets and balls and deuces and ads, but those were mere details. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Because trunk cargo nets have large holes, pointed items such as fishing poles, bats, or rackets can get tangled. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026

City Hall’s handling of it still looks like the rackets of yore. — Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

These weren't what the school provided us, except for the tennis balls themselves, but everything else — the rackets, the shoes, the ball machine, the bags, even the leaf blower — all of those things were fundraised by the kids. — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

And Jim Payne, the same friend who’d helped Alex and Geddy buy tennis rackets that afternoon in Monroe, eventually joined Better Than Ezra. — Kevin Griffin, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026

Manzo was an outspoken critic of cartel involvement in extortion and other rackets. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026

The allegation was just part of a drumbeat of US criticism over the cartels’ political protection rackets. — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 25 July 2026